Ghost Catching System

Just as Chu Hao was planning to make a run for it, he felt a surge of annoyance upon hearing Zhang Genshu call out to him.

Chu Hao’s neck stiffened as he turned around, offering a forced smile. ”Having heard the Taoist Master’s words, I feel it’s necessary to prepare myself properly before exterminating the Heavenly Bone Woman.”

Zhang Genshu nodded. ”Indeed, preparation is needed.”

Chu Hao cupped his fists. ”In that case, I will return to make thorough preparations.”

People didn’t think too much of it and even admired Chu Hao. After all, he had faced the Heavenly Bone Woman. If it were any of them, they probably wouldn’t stand a chance.

Chu Hao had to admire his own cunning. With a grand wave of his hand, he declared with righteous indignation, ”To extinguish the Heavenly Bone Woman and save the common folk, once I am ready, I will call all of you. Farewell.”

With that, people’s admiration for Chu Hao grew even stronger, and even Yue Qinghong began to change her opinion of him.

He was so earnestly noble, rushing to the site for the safety of the people, and yet I was begrudging him over our last competition, she thought.

Alas... my cultivation is not yet profound enough.

Thinking this, Yue Qinghong cupped her fists. ”Fellow Daoist Chu, I was in the wrong last time. I hope for the opportunity to have a proper match with you in the future. Your sense of duty is something we should all learn from.”

Chu Hao felt too embarrassed to take such praise.

”Until next time,” he said, waving his hand as he left behind a dashing figure.

Chu Hao lifted his foot to leave, but the Seal Devil Altar began to shake.

CRACK!

The surface of the Seal Devil Altar actually started to crack.

”Not good!” Everyone was suddenly stricken with fear.

Zhang Genshu’s breathing hastened. He knew full well how terrifying the Heavenly Bone Woman was and quickly said, ”Young friend Chu, don’t go yet, we need you.”

But there was no response. When they turned to look, they found Chu Hao had already dashed off like a wisp of smoke... gone!

Everyone was left speechless.

Chu Hao thought to himself, If not now, then when!

Besides, he had fiercely battled the Heavenly Bone Woman before. Once she got out, he would likely be her target.

Seeing Chu Hao running, the others stood dumbfounded in their spots.

Yue Qinghong’s face flushed with anger. To think I admired his sense of justice! she thought. This guy’s really unprincipled, just running away like that?

BOOM.

The Seal Devil Altar completely shattered, and a woman of unearthly beauty appeared. She had the peerless visage of an ancient beauty, lovely as an Immortal Celestial, but her eyes were terrifying—lifeless as dead fish, with pitch-black pupils.

The Ghost Demon aura emanating from the Heavenly Bone Woman soared to the heavens, instantly turning the sky dark. The moonlight vanished, completely obscured.

The Heavenly Bone Woman let out a long howl. Having been sealed for thousands of years, she had finally returned.

A powerful energy fluctuation pushed everyone back. They watched her in disbelief.

In the past, their ancestor, Zhang Daoling, had actually battled such a Ghost Demon. He couldn’t kill her and was only able to seal her.

”Form the formation!” Zhang Genshu shouted.

Everyone sprang into action. The Mao Mountain disciples set up their talisman formation, Mao Mountain Yellow Talismans appearing in their hands—this was a Demon-subduing Formation meant to suppress all kinds of evil demons and ghosts.

The Mao Mountain disciples had thought the Demon-subduing Formation would influence the Heavenly Bone Woman to some extent, but she remained motionless, her expression calm as still water, as she continued walking forward.

Qing Ming yelled, ”Evil fiend, why don’t you surrender?”

The Heavenly Bone Woman was very beautiful, as if she had stepped out of an ancient painting, but she was not a fairy.

The Mao Mountain Disciples recited the Demon-subduing Formation. Around them, talismanic sigils and patterns flared to life, glowing with a celestial, dazzling brilliance as they began to suppress the Heavenly Bone Woman.

The Heavenly Bone Woman lifted her delicate hand and gently pressed it onto the pattern of the talisman.

In that instant, a ferocious power, like a bolt of lightning, shattered the talisman formation. Everyone who had set up the formation spat out a mouthful of blood, their faces filled with disbelief.

The Demon-subduing Formation, capable of suppressing a Top-level Xuan Sha Ghost, shouldn’t be weak even against a Ghost Officiant, but the Heavenly Bone Woman barely touched it, and the formation collapsed.

How terrifying must this Evil Demon be?

”Surround her,” Zhang Genshu commanded.

The disciples of Longhu Mountain, inheritors of a thousand-year tradition, had not let martial arts fall into obscurity. Many of them had cultivated Inner Strength within their bodies. When it came to exorcising Evil Demons, they were particularly adept.

The Longhu Mountain disciples rushed forward, employing punches filled with potent yang energy, each capable of shattering solid rock.

A Longhu Mountain disciple in his thirties threw a vigorous punch, confident that had it landed on a zombie, the creature would have been either killed or left seriously maimed.

But the Heavenly Bone Woman simply raised her hand and caught the fist.

The disciple felt an immense force from her grip, and his face turned pale with shock. He tried to withdraw his fist, only to find it completely immobile, trapped in her grasp.

”What!” the disciple exclaimed in terror.

The Heavenly Bone Woman moved. Her sharp, blade-like nails sliced across the disciple’s neck.

Immediately afterward, the disciple’s head flew off, rolling on the ground, while the headless body fell, blood spurting three feet high.

Everyone’s scalp tingled at the sight.

A living person had just died like that—a concept utterly terrifying in contemporary times.

Even as representatives of two great Taoist sects, in this age of peace, they had never seen such murderous acts, and they all stood dumbfounded.

It was Zhang Genshu, who had seen more of the world, that bellowed, ”Heavenly Gang Twenty-four Evil Killing Formation!”

The other disciples hastily prepared to set up the renowned Heavenly Gang Twenty-four Evil Killing Formation to annihilate the Heavenly Bone Woman.

The Heavenly Gang Twenty-four Evil Killing Formation, a demon-subduing formation invented by Zhang Daoling himself, required the disciples to stand in formation, bite their fingers, and chant a series of incantations.

Suddenly, an aura of yang and evil erupted around them like a torrent.

The Heavenly Bone Woman spoke in an ancient, incomprehensible language. Dressed in ancient attire, with a voluptuous figure and walking barefoot, she possessed an ethereal, otherworldly beauty, like a celestial being who had descended upon a pure breeze.

To modern people, she appeared to be a goddess straight out of a movie.

But she was no goddess. She was a Female Devil.

In the eyes of the Heavenly Bone Woman flickered a deep-seated hatred. She had been sealed by Zhang Daoling, and now, upon seeing the descendants of Master Zhang trying to subjugate her again, how could she not be furious?

The Heavenly Bone Woman moved, her speed astonishing. A Ghost Phantom figure tore through the Heavenly Gang Twenty-four Evil Killing Formation, which she viewed as far too feeble, nothing close to one percent of Zhang Daoling’s power.

In a blink, she was in front of a Mao Mountain Disciple. Her slender, pale hand pierced through the disciple’s chest, ripping out his still-beating heart.

The steaming heart was still pulsating when removed—a sight too horrifying for words.

A cry broke from the crowd, and the young disciples shivered with fear.

Qing Ming shouted, ”Evil fiend, cease your rampant ways!”

This senior Mao Mountain practitioner took action, producing a yellow talisman and chanting, ”Thrice born from the primal element, under the high justice of the auspicious sky. Commands issued shall be heeded, aligning with the stars above. Come to our aid, Thunder God, as we call forth the winds and thunder. Emperor Taiyi, summon thy divine spirit. With one call you arrive, to descend upon the imperial court.”

The yellow talisman exploded, a lightning bolt thundering towards the Heavenly Bone Woman.

The Heavenly Bone Woman didn’t avoid it. Instead, she charged forward—into the lightning?

She passed through the lightning bolt, her skin disintegrating into ash, revealing her silver hand bones as she reached out and grasped Qing Ming’s neck.

Onlookers were struck dumb. The thunder talisman of Mao Mountain’s Taoism, ineffective against the Heavenly Bone Woman, had only damaged her flesh.

And those silver-white hand bones—it was like witnessing a real-life Bai Gu Spirit!